Drones Target Terror Plot

[Denny Crane]

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WASHINGTON—In an effort to foil a suspected terrorist plot against European targets, the Central Intelligence Agency has ramped up missile strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal regions, current and former officials say.

The strikes, launched from unmanned drone aircraft, represent a rare use of the CIA's drone campaign to preempt a possible attack on the West.

Eerily similar to Nixon bombing Laos and Cambodia, under the same kind of reasoning.

 

[MARIS61]

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Eerily similar to Nixon bombing Laos and Cambodia, under the same kind of reasoning.

And just as illegal.

Seems they're just looking for payback for this anyway:

The CIA has launched at least 20 drone strikes so far this month in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a lawless region neighboring Afghanistan. That is the highest monthly total in the past six years, according to a tally by the New America Foundation think tank. The previous monthly high was 12 strikes in January, following the December suicide attack that killed seven CIA agents on an agency base in eastern Afghanistan.

 

[MARIS61]

Why do we give a damn about protecting France anyway?